Plastics: global production will double by 2040

Plastic bottles.

© Fred Tanneau / AFP

By: Anne-Cécile Bras Follow

1 min

Packaging, toys, clothing, pipes, tires ... plastics are everywhere and the health crisis is an opportunity for manufacturers to restore the image of all disposable.

Without scruple: there is recycling!

Except that of the 7 billion tonnes of plastics produced since the 1950s, 91% are not recycled.

They pollute the ocean, the soil, the air and it's not about to stop!

Journalist Dorothée Moisan provides an overwhelming inventory in her book

Les plastiqueurs, an investigation of these industrialists who poison us,

 published by Kero.

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